Personal Reflection On Aa Meeting

Before I went to the AA meeting I felt anxious and kind of nervous because I did not know what to expect. I felt like I would be uncomfortable going by myself so I bought my friend along with me to calm my nerves. When we went into the meeting they were very welcoming and I realized that it wasn 't really a big deal and there was no reason to feel nervous. A common theme throughout the meeting was hospitalization and loss of family due to the addiction. Another common theme was binge drinking that leaded to frequent blackouts. Speaker 1 discussed how he started drinking when he was only 13 years old, his dad and mom were both alcoholics, which greatly influenced his addiction. He explained that by the age of 22 he was spiraling out of control. …show more content…
He started drinking when he was about 15, then when he was 18 he got married and had a baby with his wife. When the baby was born he had to get immediate brain surgery, so this made him extremely depressed and he drank throughout the entire process. He wasn 't there for his wife when she would be crying nonstop; he would go out with his friends and drink until he forgot. The baby 's surgery went well, but he wasn 't around for much of his child 's early years because he was always out drinking. He told stories on how he would drive blackout drunk and have no idea how he would get home the next morning. He thought he would never get caught drinking and driving, but then he did. He said how he didn 't even care and just wanted to pay the fines and get back his license. He never told his wife about the DWI because it didn 't matter to him. In class we discussed how drinking and driving causes impairment in the driver, and can lead to crashes which can be deadly. Also causes licenses to be suspended or revoked depending on the amount of convictions the individual gets. After his first conviction he did get his license …show more content…
I have always been taught that drugs and alcohol have a negative impact on people 's health and personal lives. I never really thought as alcohol as a “big deal” since it 's such a popular drug of choice in this society. Personally, I feel as if my high school teachers even brushed by the topic of drinking and focused more on heroine and other drugs. I do have negative concerns surrounding alcohol use since alcoholism has run in my family. My aunt in currently in recovery and is 6 years sober. Seeing how alcohol and drugs negatively affected my aunt 's life made me realize how hard it is to fight this addiction. My aunt is also a single mother to my 4 year old cousin. Her father is not in the picture because of his addiction with pills and alcohol. That’s one of the reasons why I have a negative attitude to drugs and alcohol because my cousin 's father isn’t present in her life because of his addictions. I have a negative attitude towards pills and other drugs because of how I’ve seen it destroy so many people’s